Quote

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'.

When you have a blueprint doesn't mean you can't add another room.

There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

My design is no design.

You can't go by what things look like on paper.

Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.